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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1948
Page
14
Pittsburgh's female police officers wear blue uniforms and perform duties from investigations to school crossings. Police Superintendent Harvey J. Scott praises their adaptability and success in handling cases and even dangerous confrontations.
London police warn of razor slasher gangs terrorizing the city with vicious facial wounds. Flights of victims fear speaking to avoid reprisal as Flying Squad hunts the attackers. Reports tie a protection racket and insurance schemes to attacks at theatres race tracks and other venues. Gangs, once active in Glasgow, are said to organize and operate across several districts. Police urge immediate action to curb a potential revival of past terror.
Oroville Washington residents and visitors chase a half century old legend of a gold vein along the Similkameen river. Amateurs from students to teachers pan sunlit sandbars seeking fortune while many earn only sunburns and sore muscles as the lure of gold persists.
Scientists have boosted yields of tomatoes and onions by adding cream and skim milk to soil. Wheat production in the United Kingdom is forecast at about 95 million bushels this year, well above the 62 million bushels average in 1947.
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